Bloggers Arise And Unite!

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I’m trying a slightly different approach with this year’s Heart Kids Tweet-a-thon – to try and get conversations started around the blogosphere by inviting active participation, engagement and involvement by partners.

I’m calling out to YOU.

Yes, you.

And I’m asking if you’ll help kick-off some discussion on your blog, website, on forums and social networks, about issues surrounding the problem of heart birth defects and the effort being made to fight it.

Here are some suggestions for what you might want to blog/write about.

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Idea #1: Cause, Story or Fundraiser?

Are you more likely to support a non-profit venture because it works for a cause you believe in? Or is their ’story’ more important to you? Or is it the team of people involved in fund-raising or executing the program that gets you to decide and help?

Idea #2: Should Charity Be Noisy & Public?

Or do you shrink from the thought of tooting one’s horn about non-profit work? Is it your view that ’strong and silent’ is the best way to facilitate change?

Idea #3: What Do You Look For In a Non-Profit?

Talk about your ideal organization, what it will have, what it would do.

Idea #4: Cost of Charity

The issues about a non-profit’s expenses that most concern you as a donor.

Idea #5: What Proof Do You Want?

Before you donate, what things about a charity do you evaluate? In your opinion, what should a non-profit share, reveal and display so that it earns your respect, trust and support?

Idea #6: Are you more likely to donate to non-profits that blog?

Idea #7: How does social networking affect charity?

Idea #8: How can non-profits harness social networking power?

Idea #9: The impact of video in online fundraising

You could include a link to the CHD movie on YouTube, here it is:

http://niche2.com/chd/?page=2&paged=6

Idea #10: Viral marketing in supporting social causes

You might mention this attempt to spread CHD awareness using a catchy cartoon:

http://niche2.com/chd/?page=2&paged=3

Idea #11: Role of Social networks in addressing social ills

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These are just some thoughts I came up with. Feel free to take up any other angle of the problem of CHD, or the event (the Heart Kids Tweet-a-thon), or anything else about it to feature in your efforts.

Don’t just stop with blogging it.

• Invite opinions.
• Ask for suggestions.
• Engage discussion.
• Provoke debate.
• Encourage brainstorming.

And somewhere in the course of your blog or forum or Twitter post and interaction, weave in the message about the Heart Kids Tweet-a-thon and how we’re trying to raise awareness and funds for kids with congenital heart defects.

Please track-back to this post, or leave a comment here so that I’ll be able to direct visitors during the Tweet-a-thon to see your post.